AI Salon

AI Salon

About AI Salon

AI Salon is a roughly bi-weekly event on Fridays where the AI Lab gathers to discuss high-level topics in AI and machine learning. The goal is to encourage ourselves to think beyond our individual day-to-day research, and better see how our work fits into the long-term trajectory of scientific progress, and into society as a whole. Each Salon has a different topic for discussion, which is led by two speakers: typically one expert guest, and one AI Lab member. We hold the event in the spirit of Enlightenment-era salons, with no electronics or whiteboard allowed: only free-ranging discussion among attendees, starting with a 10-minute opening statement from the two speakers.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, Andrey Kurenkov (andreyk@stanford.edu) and Michelle Lee (mishlee@stanford.edu) are the organizers of AI Salon.

Time and Place

AI Salon is typically held in Room 219 (2nd floor open area) of the Gates Computer Science building. The event is held from 4-5pm, with refreshments served from 3:45pm.

Attendance Policy

AI Salon is open to all current Stanford students, postdocs and faculty. We particularly welcome those who can bring interdisciplinary perspectives to the event. Due to space limitations, any other attendees must be invited by a current member of the AI Lab.

Occasionally, AI Salon is opened up to the public – for example the AI Salon with Yann LeCun on February 2, 2018. However, this is an exception to the usual format.

Mailing List

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Date

Title

Speaker

03/21/2014

Has IBM’s Watson driven forward research or was it primarily an engineering accomplishment?

04/11/2014

Are we overfitting to single-query datasets?

(Gabor Angeli & Olga Russakovsky)

04/25/2014

Artificial Intelligence & Intelligence Augmentation

(John Markoff & Arun Chaganty)

05/16/2014

Is interaction with the physical world necessary to acquire intelligence?

(David Held & Oussama Khatib)

05/30/2014

AI & Neuroscience

(Michelle Green & Ben Poole)

06/13/2014

AI in Movies

(Andrej Karpathy & Vivek Srikumar)

09/26/2014

Machine Learning vs. Statistics

(Will Fithian & Percy Liang)

10/10/2014

What should theory look like to be useful for robotics?

(Leslie Kaelbling & Arun Chaganty)

10/17/2014

Phonemes and parts of speech: Are categories and symbolic structures a fundamental fact of language or fantasy of linguists?

(Chris Manning & Andrew Ng)

11/07/2014

The Language of Food

(Dan Jurafsky)

11/21/2014

The Ethics of Autonomous Driving

(Silvio Savarese & Christian Gerdes)

12/05/2014

The End of Determinism

(Stefano Ermon & Alex Ratner)

01/23/2015

Using neuroscience to build an AI

(Jeff Hawkins and Surya Ganguli)

02/06/2015

The Turing Test

(Will Hamilton and Fei-Fei Li)

02/20/2015

Robotics in the Air and Space

(Mykel Kochenderfer & Marco Pavone)

03/06/2015

Robotics in the Air: Part II

(Mykel Kochenderfer)

03/20/2015

AI100 Initiative and the Future of AI

(Eric Horvitz)

04/07/2015

Dangers of AI (attendance by invitation only)

(Elon Musk)

04/17/2015

Horizontal vs. Vertical Progress in AI

(Matt Ginsberg & Jacob Steinhardt)

04/24/2015

Our Filtered Lives

(Grace Muzny & Timnit Gebru)

05/08/2015

The History of AI

(Ed Feigenbaum & Angel Chang)

05/15/2015

The Future of Human Labor

(Michael Webb & Tudor Achim)

10/02/2015

AI’s Role in Human Disconnection

(Timnit Gebru & Serena Yeung)

10/16/2015

Trust in AI Techniques/Algorithms

(Maneesh Agarwala & Tum Chaturapruek)

10/30/2015

How to Build a Society in a World of Creative Destruction

(Nils Nilsson & Russell Stewart)

11/06/2015

What’s Right About Machine Learning?

(Sham Kakade & Yash Deshphande)

11/13/2015

AI and Health Care

(David Sontag & Volodymyr Kuleshov)

12/04/2015

Artificial Intelligence — Boom or Menace?

(Jerry Kaplan & John Markoff)

01/08/2016

AI & Genomics

(Gill Bejerano & Irene Kaplow)

01/22/2016

AI and the Legal System

(Tino Cuellar & Pratiksha Thaker)

01/29/2016

Gap Between Pattern Recognition and Intelligence

(Michael Black & Amir Zamir)

03/11/2016

Pattern Recognition for Symbolic Reasoning: Deep Learning and Beyond

(Tudor Achim & Jacob Steinhardt)

04/01/2016

The Role of Formal Logic in Semantics

(Ray Mooney & Chris Manning)

04/15/2016

What Can AI Learn From How Babies Learn?

(Jitendra Malik & Zayd Enam)

04/29/2016

The Master Algorithm for AI

(Pedro Domingos & Volodymyr Kuleshov)

05/13/2016

AI and Accessibility

(Joshua Miele & Timnit Gebru)

05/20/2016

Lessons from the Neocortex

(Ray Kurzweil & Bharath Ramsundar)

05/27/2016

Diversity in AI

(Serena Yeung & Arun Chaganty)

09/30/2016

Ai and the Economy

(Kevin Leyton-Brown & Jacob Steinhardt)

10/07/2016

Software Engineering for Machine Learning

(Peter Norvig & Aditya Grover)

11/04/2016

The Interaction of Future AI Algorithms and Hardware

(Jen-Hsun Huang & Jim Fan)

11/18/2016

Challenges in Whole-Brain Simulation

(Rosa Cao & Will Allen)

12/02/2016

Will Today’s AI Technology Be Able to Transform Healthcare?

(Vijay S. Pande & Bharath Ramsundar)

01/20/2017

How Can We Make ML Interpretable

(Anshul Kundaje & Avanti Shrikumar)

02/03/2017

AI That Understands Emotion

(Noah Goodman & Sasha Sax)

02/17/2017

AI & Internet of Things

(Frank Chen & Monica Lam)

03/03/2017

Adversarial Machine Learning

(Ian Goodfellow & TBD)

03/17/2017

AI and Education

(Emma Brunskill & Chris Piech)

04/21/2017

Media Portrayals of AI

(Abigail See & Urvashi Khandelwal)

05/12/2017

Safe Reinforcement Learning

(Animesh Garg & Andreas Krause)

05/26/2017

Issues as We Democratize AI

(Pietro Perona & Phil Thomas)

10/13/2017

AI and Great Power Politics

(Allan Dafoe & Ashwin Paranjape)

11/03/2017

Challenges of Human-Centered Assistive Robotics

(Maja Matarić & Allison Okamura)

11/17/2017

Is General AI the Right Goal?

(Aditya Grover & Steve Mussmann)

12/01/2017

AI and the Brain

(Liqun Luo & Fei-Fei Li)

01/12/2018

AI in the Cloud

(Ruchir Puri & Fei-Fei Li)

02/02/2018

What innate priors should we build into the architecture of Deep Learning systems?